Monday, June 27, 2016

Overcoming the Challenges of Existing Retail Audit Systems

In order to provide documented verification of adherence to corporate standards -
safety, branding, etc - retailers rely heavily on periodic audits that normally
include tools such as checklists, compliance surveys and multi-level standard
tasks.

Most systems developed to perform these audit are "homemade", meaning that they are a
combination of paper forms and somewhat-automated applications developed in popular
spreadsheet or word processing software. In addition to being cumbersome and wasteful,
these existing systems can cause the loss of critical information and/or significant
time between the detection of an issue and its resolution.

Retail audit apps are the ideal solution to this scenario. By implementing a
retail audit app, retailers
can use smartphones and tablets to automate the periodic audits required to comply with
corporate standards.

A retail audit app will not
only automate the data collection by allowing custom forms, checklists, surveys, and
tasks, but also makes it possible for managers and supervisors go get real-time access
to data, significantly speeding-up critical decision-making. State-of-the-art retail
audit apps will even provide time and GPS verification, authenticating the time and
place where the audit was performed.

VisitBasis Retail Audit App provides all the tools necessary to setup and
execute retail audits, from custom checklists, questionnaires, and multi-level tasks -
that can include pictures and signatures - to real-time access to audit data and
authentication.